Method of and means for utilizing locomotive-engines for stationary purposes



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' G. B. FINLEY. METHOD OEAND MEANS FOR UTILIZING LOGOMOTIVE ENGINES FOR STATIONARY PURPOSES.

No. 269,190. Patented Dec. 19, 1882.

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0. B. FINLEY. METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR UTILIZING LOUOMOTIVE ENGINES FOR STATIONARY PURPOSES.

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

CLEMENT B. FINLEL OF HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR UTILIZING LOCOMOTIVE-ENGINES FOR STATIONARY PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,190, dated December 19, 1882. Application filed October 27, 1882. (X0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CLEMENT B. FINLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntingdon, in the county ofHuntingdon, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Utilizing Locomotive Engines for Stationary-Engine Purposes, which improvement is fully set, forth in thefollowing specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of the device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

My invention consists of means, substantially hereinafter set forth, whereby a locomotiveengine may be utilized for stationary-engine purposes, or the locomotive-engine may be converted into a stationary engine.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the tracks of a railroad, which are vertically cut awayat intervals eq ual to the distance between the drivers or drivingwheels B of a locomotive-engine, thus forming throats a a.

(3 represents shafts, which are mounted .in a trench or box beneath the tracks A and extend transversely at a right angle to the latter, and have keyed or otherwise secured to them friction-wheels D, whose peripheries enter the throats a from below, and are in the same plane as the tracks A, so as to stand level with the treads thereof as contiuuations thereof.

To the shafts O are fixed spur-wheels E E, which are geared together by a wheel, E, the shaft]? whereof carries a drum, pulley, band, or other wheel, Gr. v

H represents a drum, pulley, band, or other wheel, which ismounted on a shaft, H, which is parallel with the shaft F; and J represents a chain or cable, which is passed around the two drumsG H, so that when one end is being wound thereon the other end is unwound therefrom. It is evident that while the shafts F H are mounted in the trench or on a box below the tracks the drums may be above or below the road-bed, as desired or required. Either of the several shafts may carry a crank,

b, a pulley or band wheel, 0, or other suitable mechanical means for transmitting power of the shafts to devices such as pumps, hoisting and hauling apparatus, 8110.

Rising from the road -bed is a post or standard, K, and connected with the locomotiveengine or with said standard is a coupling, L, which may be of the form of a yoke, chain, &c., for coupling the engine and said standard, and thereby anchoring the engine when in position for slationz try-engine purposes.

The operation is as follows: Alocomotiveengine is run over the tracks A until the driving-wheels B thereof are in contact with the tread of the friction-wheels D. The coupling L is then applied and steam of the engine turned on, the effect whereof is to operate the drivers B without moving the engine from its position, and transmitting the motion and power thereof to the wheels D, and consequently to the drums G H. The chain or cableJ is consequently wound and unwound, and may be utilized for hoisting cars from a mine, so that while the loaded cars are raised the empty cars may be returned, but a single drum or wheel, G or H, however, may be employed forgeneral hoistingpurposes. When operation of the stationary engineis no longer required the coupling L is thrown off, the drivers B then leaving the wheels D and returning to the tracks, and the locomotiveengine thus again performing its own service.

It is-evident that the motion and power of the wheels D may be transmitted to gearing or mechanism connected with a turn-table, whereby the engine may operate the latter, thus dispensing with the laborious manual labor heretofore employed for such purpose, and other uses of the power derived may be made, such uses being numerous for purposes of' railroads, mines, engineering, &c.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is

1. The method of utilizing locomotive-engines for stationary-engine purposes, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Railroad-rails with throats, whereby the drivers of a locomotive-engine may engage with Wheels of a stationary engine, substanject, so as to be continuous of the treads of tially as and for the purpose set forth. a the rails substantially as and for the purpose I0 :5. Railroad-rails with throats, in combinaset forth. tion with the couplings L, substantially as C FINLEY 5 and for the purpose set forth.

4. The wheels D and connected drums or Witnesses: gearing in combination with railroatLrails D. E.1\IG1VI.URTR1E, having throats, into which said wheels pro- GEO. L. MILLER. 

